Brian C Baumann, Walter R Bosch, Amit Bahl, Alison J Birtle, Rodney H Breau, Amarnath Challapalli, Albert J Chang, Ananya Choudhury, Sia Daneshmand, Ali El-Gayed, Adam Feldman, Steven E Finkelstein, Thomas J Guzzo, Serena Hilman, Ashesh Jani, S Bruce Malkowicz, Constantine A Mantz, Viraj Master, Anita V Mitra, Vedang Murthy, Sima P Porten, Pierre M Richaud, Paul Sargos, Jason A Efstathiou, Libni J Eapen, John P Christodouleas
PURPOSE: To develop multi-institutional consensus clinical target volumes (CTVs) and organs at risk (OARs) for male and female bladder cancer patients undergoing adjuvant radiation therapy (RT) in clinical trials. METHODS AND MATERIALS: We convened a multidisciplinary group of bladder cancer specialists from 15 centers and 5 countries. Six radiation oncologists and 7 urologists participated in the development of the initial contours. The group proposed initial language for the CTVs and OARs, and each radiation oncologist contoured them on computed tomography scans of a male and female cystectomy patient with input from ≥1 urologist...
September 1, 2016: International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics